Fel Az Úton
Author: Simon Broughton
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Artist/band: |
Csángálló |
Label: |
Fonó Records |
Magazine Review Date: |
March/2018 |
My favourite band at this year's Budapest Ritmo festival was this young quintet, based in Budapest, with a distinctly Balkan swing in their music. Basically a wind band, featuring sax, clarinet and the clarinet-like taragot, plus accordion and folk-style drum and cymbal slung over the shoulder. The drummer, Tamás Bősze, also sings the occasional vocal. Their playing is punchy and full of bounce, which certainly kept people dancing in the ruin-cum-pub where I saw them play. An asset to any party.
Saxophone player and leader of the band Csobán Sára hails from the Transylvanian region of Gyimes, high in the Carpathians. Much of the musical inspiration comes from there, although the instrumentation is so transformed you wouldn't necessarily know. They take other influences from elsewhere in Romania and beyond. The opening ‘A Viking Vándor’ is in a foot-tapping 7/8; it's an original composition by Swedish member of the band Johannes Olsson (hence the title). Although the band is all men, one track on the album, ‘Kocsma Az Út Szélén’, has three female guest vocalists; a permanent female vocalist would be a welcome addition.
Saxophone player and leader of the band Csobán Sára hails from the Transylvanian region of Gyimes, high in the Carpathians. Much of the musical inspiration comes from there, although the instrumentation is so transformed you wouldn't necessarily know. They take other influences from elsewhere in Romania and beyond. The opening ‘A Viking Vándor’ is in a foot-tapping 7/8; it's an original composition by Swedish member of the band Johannes Olsson (hence the title). Although the band is all men, one track on the album, ‘Kocsma Az Út Szélén’, has three female guest vocalists; a permanent female vocalist would be a welcome addition.
